I don't suppose anyone else recognizes the irony of a post accusing me of whining, and then immediately whining about an issue that has been beaten to death in a half-dozen threads, as well as being the subject of an explicit and direct mod ruling.

So, just a little disingenuous lying, then?

I accused you of whining. I didn't do the second part. Perhaps you are conflating me with everyone else on the board, but your internal paranoia is misleading you. We are not all the same person, intent on bothering you.

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Tentatively and lightly dipping my toes back in the water.

Oh, wouldn't be that unfair. In my youth, studying for admission to the penitentiary, I was very conservative. Military brat, Goldwater, Ayn Rand, the complete catastrophe! I got better! Someone. probably Twain, made me laugh at something I fiercely believed, and the Wall cracked. Sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll finished the job.

Still think its true, but can't prove it: you guys are losing because you have no funny. And can't get any.

You know what's great about being a conservative? You never have to think about anything. You either want to keep things they way they are or go back to the way they were. No problem-solving or critical thinking required. I bet conservatives are far happier than progressives. Just leap into the nostalgia pool and drown in ignorance.

Don't see how that has anything to do with anything. The posts you were responding to were making the real observation that there are no successful conservative comedians.

I don't think so.

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Why don't you explain what is that you laugh at about liberals that makes up for the lack of successful comedy on the conservative side.

I don't object to the laughing part. It's the "simply trolling the liberals for the lol's, harming the country and it's people" part. You can claim that if you want, but asserting that I meant that has no basis.

I would say I'm sympathetic, but the fact is that I'm not.
I don't think so.
I don't object to the laughing part. It's the "simply trolling the liberals for the lol's, harming the country and it's people" part. You can claim that if you want, but asserting that I meant that has no basis.

Then what is it that you are laughing at? That liberals are concerned about the future of our country? That liberals are concerned for the future of many of the more vulnerable citizens and residents of our country? That liberals are concerned about how ignoring the environment may come and bite us in the ass?

I mean, there are two types of liberals that are funny, comedians, and people that are futilely trying to protect the country, its people and its environment from the damage being done by conservatives. You said that you aren't laughing at the first, so, what does that leave us?

When Democrats were in charge, I never laughed at conservatives for trying to prevent the ACA from being passed. I disagreed with them, and fought against them, but I didn't laugh at them because I was making the things that they were striving for out of reach.

If you want people to not think that "laugh at liberals" is not you getting schadenfreudian pleasure out of the pain and dismay that liberals are feeling due to the damages that are being done to the fabric of our society, then articulate what it is about liberals you find so damn funny.

While I think HD is mostly a troll, I'll defend F-P a bit -- I sometimes find him obnoxious and pedantic in political threads, but he took the time to provide some thoughtful and useful information in threads I started about finding a new HVAC unit and on real estate investment. I think he's a good contributor to the board, in general.

Or you can watch videos of the Oklahoma City bombing and have a real laugh riot.

Recently I learned, via HurricaneDitka himself, that this murder of 168 people was not entirely unreasonable. Certainly not to be compared with the heinousness of the Antifa terrorists who tossed stones, unreasonably, toward Nazis — Nazis merely exercising their God-given First Amendment right to complain that Jews, Muslims and blacks are not yet entirely dead.

Would I be out-of-line to suggest that Mr. Ditka's opinions are not entirely humane? And that his supporters do not appear to be entirely sane and/or sober?

Recently I learned, via HurricaneDitka himself, that this murder of 168 people was not entirely unreasonable. Certainly not to be compared with the heinousness of the Antifa terrorists who tossed stones, unreasonably, toward Nazis — Nazis merely exercising their God-given First Amendment right to complain that Jews, Muslims and blacks are not yet entirely dead.

Would I be out-of-line to suggest that Mr. Ditka's opinions are not entirely humane? And that his supporters do not appear to be entirely sane and/or sober?

How can you make the McVeigh argument without also acknowledging that 9/11 was a reasonable response to U.S. excursions into the Middle East?

How can you make the McVeigh argument without also acknowledging that 9/11 was a reasonable response to U.S. excursions into the Middle East?

Killing civilians in response to actions taken by a government is terrorism.

If Mcveigh's terrorism is reasonable, then all terrorism is.

FTR, I do not subscribe to that idea.

Also, anyone who holds this idea certainly cannot consider peaceful, if inconvenient, protests to be unreasonable responses to government actions. And even if a protest escalates to violence and rioting, that is still a reasonable response.

I dunno, has HD ever criticized BLM or any other protest group for anything? If not, then at least hypocrisy in this is not added to the wright of sins.

I dunno, has HD ever criticized BLM or any other protest group for anything? If not, then at least hypocrisy in this is not added to the wright of sins.

He seems to have a bug up his ass about antifa. I guess those guys oppose facism. The nerve, huh? They do it with aggressive confrontation against peaceful nazis from what I've seen in HD's antifa links. Otherwise, I'd never have heard of them.

I Pit HurricaneDitka for wasting my time. Although typical right-wing arrogance has been the dominant theme of his contributions here, from time to time, he exhibited actual intelligence and intellectual curiosity — or so I thought. In another thread, he claimed that Hillary and Trump were equivalent liars — both "typical politicians." Was he aware of Trump U.? No, he openly bragged, it's not important.

I wasted time to engage him, and posted a summary of Trump U., a massive detestable fraud for which Trump has been forced to pay out tens of millions. Hurricane's response was, in effect: "Just what I said; Trump's a fraudster, Hillary exaggerated about sniper fire. Same-same. Trump has been charged with child rape; Hillary is alleged to have run the child sex ring from a pizza parlor. Same-same."

We're left with the question: How can a man exhibit this much stupidity and be both sincere and intelligent? Is the right-wing echo chamber so strong as to rob a man completely of his mental faculties? Hurricane writes like he has at least a 95+ IQ; what gives? Is he a troll? Does he work for the Russians? It seems far-fetched, but how else to explain his mental model? Even Starving Artist and Brickhead seem to understand how detestable a man Trump is.

For once, I'm not being sarcastic. I sincerely wonder what his game or mental model is. He doesn't seem like a "troll," but I have no other explanation.

I Pit HurricaneDitka for wasting my time. Although typical right-wing arrogance has been the dominant theme of his contributions here, from time to time, he exhibited actual intelligence and intellectual curiosity — or so I thought. In another thread, he claimed that Hillary and Trump were equivalent liars — both "typical politicians." Was he aware of Trump U.? No, he openly bragged, it's not important.

I wasted time to engage him, and posted a summary of Trump U., a massive detestable fraud for which Trump has been forced to pay out tens of millions. Hurricane's response was, in effect: "Just what I said; Trump's a fraudster, Hillary exaggerated about sniper fire. Same-same. Trump has been charged with child rape; Hillary is alleged to have run the child sex ring from a pizza parlor. Same-same."

We're left with the question: How can a man exhibit this much stupidity and be both sincere and intelligent? Is the right-wing echo chamber so strong as to rob a man completely of his mental faculties? Hurricane writes like he has at least a 95+ IQ; what gives? Is he a troll? Does he work for the Russians? It seems far-fetched, but how else to explain his mental model? Even Starving Artist and Brickhead seem to understand how detestable a man Trump is.

For once, I'm not being sarcastic. I sincerely wonder what his game or mental model is. He doesn't seem like a "troll," but I have no other explanation.

Skilled stealth troll, I think. Mixed with a little bit of actual desire for discussion, and a lot of general dishonesty.

HurricaneDitka's greater sin in my eyes is that he's yet another poltroon who avoids the Pit to insulate his delicate constitution from the consequences of his own tireless shitbaggery, under the guise of religiosity or decorum or preference for real, "productive" debate over mindless mud-slinging. Meanwhile he's willing and able to say things just as vile as anything uttered here, as long as he frames it in phony golly-jeepers-I'm-only-asking-what-you-guys-think language and leaves out the fucks and cunts.

HurricaneDitka's greater sin in my eyes is that he's yet another poltroon who avoids the Pit to insulate his delicate constitution from the consequences of his own tireless shitbaggery, under the guise of religiosity or decorum or preference for real, "productive" debate over mindless mud-slinging. Meanwhile he's willing and able to say things just as vile as anything uttered here, as long as he frames it in phony golly-jeepers-I'm-only-asking-what-you-guys-think language and leaves out the fucks and cunts.

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